Curious translations

[Nicky]

Thanks. I guess I must be forgetting something. the ~te/de form was neve ra problem for me.
Watashi wa yonde imasu.
I am reading.
Just replace the u with "nde" for these types. Right? Or asobu, or drop the u and add te?

Everyones bound to forget something every once in a while. Especially the te-forms, I'm always wondering which one to use "te" or "tte".

For ru verbs: (I.E any verb that ends with "ru" like "taberu") drop the "ru" add "te

miru - mite

It gets complicated after that: Verbs that end in mu, nu, and bu get turned into "nde"

nomu - nonde
yomu - yonde
asobu - asonde
​

"u" Verbs: The u is dropped and you add "tte".

kau - katte

For the rest:
(anything that doesn't end in ru, nu, mu, or bu and isn't an irregular verb like suru)
The "u" sound gets turned into it's corresponding "i" sound and then you add te.

Examples:
sagasu - becomes sagashite
watasu - becomes watashite​

In the case of "u" verbs that end in "ku" the k is dropped.

Example:
kiku -> becomes kikite -- > kiite
kaku -> becomes kaite
hiku -> hiite
​

There's other stuff but I can't remember it all off the top of my head. Man I hope I got all this stuff right. :?

 

[GoldCoinLover]

Everyones bound to forget something every once in a while. Especially the te-forms, I'm always wondering which one to use "te" or "tte".

For ru verbs: (I.E any verb that ends with "ru" like "taberu") drop the "ru" add "te

miru - mite

It gets complicated after that: Verbs that end in mu, nu, and bu get turned into "nde"

nomu - nonde
yomu - yonde
asobu - asonde
​

"u" Verbs: The u is dropped and you add "tte".

kau - katte

For the rest:
(anything that doesn't end in ru, nu, mu, or bu and isn't an irregular verb like suru)
The "u" sound gets turned into it's corresponding "i" sound and then you add te.

Examples:
sagasu - becomes sagashite
watasu - becomes watashite​

In the case of "u" verbs that end in "ku" the k is dropped.

Example:
kiku -> becomes kikite -- > kiite
kaku -> becomes kaite
hiku -> hiite
​

There's other stuff but I can't remember it all off the top of my head. Man I hope I got all this stuff right. :?

Sheesh! That is hard! hiku -> hiite

Looks to me like not only was the "k" left out, "I " was added as well as the lend U was replaced with "te" form.


YOu know, it baffles me I can't even make simple sentences like "I like to read."

Apparently, you have to NORMALIZE a stupid verb (make it into a noun) just to say this simpel setence! Now, if you have a verb "to read" then if you made it into a noun, what the heck would it be? A noun is a person place or thing, a verb is an action. So, if you normalized it, would it turn into a person, a thing, or a place? LOL

Here's an example

Yomu is the plain form of (to read)
Yomimasu is the polite
Yomimasen (to not read) Oops, not didn't
Yomimashtia (didn't read, I think)

Anyway.

You take "yomu" and add "no" to it and then it goes like this
Yomuno ga suki.

I like to read.

Confusing, isn't it? Worse, I never found this in ANY TEXTBOOK.

God help me.

 

[Nicky]

So, if you normalized it, would it turn into a person, a thing, or a place? LOL
Here's an example
Confusing, isn't it? Worse, I never found this in ANY TEXTBOOK.
:

Heh, and I don't think you ever will. At least not unless you buy harder books. My auntie off-handedly taught me that one day, She's a native speaker.

Eh, english lesson ahead:

Noun-
1. The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb...

The noun is merely the subject or object of another verb. So when you say in english "I like to read" read becomes the object of the verb "like". That means that "read' is the thing you "verb" or "like".

Yomu is the plain form of (to read)
Yomimasu is the polite
Yomimasen (to not read) Oops, not didn't
Yomimashtia (didn't read, I think)

I'm going to use nomu for my example:

Nomimasu - polite present form - "drink"
Nomimasen - polite negative in present tense - "not drink"
Nomimashita - polite past tense - "drunk"
Nomimasen deshita - polite negative past tense - "not drunk"

You take "yomu" and add "no" to it and then it goes like this
Yomu no ga suki.
:

I understand this but it is beyond my ability to explain. And it's really something that I think you should just file away in your mind for later. Don't worry about it for now. There's another way prase that, it involves "koto". But once again I'm not going to attempt explaining it. It's really weird.

Sheesh! That is hard! hiku -> hiite
Looks to me like not only was the "k" left out, "I " was added as well as the lend U was replaced with "te" form.

What's a "lend u"?

The "u" sound gets turned into it's corresponding "i"

su becomes "shi" or "si"
tu becomes chi
ku becomes ki

thats what I meant by "The 'u' sound gets turned into it's corresponding 'i' ".

After you change "ku" to "ki" you'll have hiki. Then you drop the k from the 'ki' in 'hiki' and you get "hi_i". Then add te,

"hi_ite"

Hiite